Good news re AMD Fusion emachines d443 laptop Radeon HD 6310: Since I added "radeon.modeset=0" in the kernel line while testing Racy Alpha, this AMD Fusion laptop has behaved nicely, and am using it now with FD64-520. Using synaptics multi-touch, all I can say is, WOW !!!

(I admit not being a fan of the touch pad because of my small eeePC 701, but scrolling the screen with two fingers in this AMD Fusion laptop just made my day. )

Thanks a lot, Kirk and the Fatdog64-520 team!_________________Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice? Get the sfs (English only).

...Also, this may be a question for the folks at Apache Friends but do you know if Xampp 1.7.4 works in Fatdog64? For some reason, I cannot get the MySQL service started (Xampp is located in opt/lampp). Everything else (ie Apache, ProFTPD) starts up just fine. Thanks.

Luv'in Fatdog64!

To answer my own question, I'm embarrassed to report that I needed to set write permissions on the '/tmp' folder. The clue was the error message found in the log file (/opt/lampp/var/mysql/*.err).

Does the Audacity PET have or eliminate the need for all of these steps in FATDOG?

Is it necessary in Puppy to load MP3 functionality?

Thanks in advance for ways you think are useful._________________Get ACTIVE Create Circles; Do those good things which benefit people's needs!
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Thank you for providing us Bibletime 2,8.1 for Fatdog 64. It's working great except for the "Bookshelf Manager" which cannot connect to remote sites to download resources. Although if a user has access to Sword files the necessary modules and *.conf files can be copied over or linked and the program works fine. It still provides another fine tool for sharing and studying God's word. See the Bibletime thread for additional comments on your pets.

i was running Puppy lupu528 from a 2 Gb flash prndrive on my MSI mobo 8 Gb RAM 4 core i3 while procrastinating... i mean, deciding which HDDs and video cards and OSs to install since Win8 sped up my boot HDD's demise. fast and easy but only recognized ~3 Gb RAM. everything worked, onboard Intel video to wireless but didn't bother with HP printer. 50 seconds from switch to fully functional desktop, faster than the Win7 normally on it. had problems with Virtualbox since it was 32 bit.

i've been running Puppy from USB pendrive before on my Dell E1505 dual core 32 bit notebook and i prefer its speed and simplicity over the Ubuntu (and stock XP) it normally runs. fast and complete.

d/l-ed Fatdog64 today and using a multi-session CD it seems even faster on this i3, plus it's using all that RAM. recognized 1920x1200 monitor, Aurora and Flash and streaming music on the internet, right away. sweet. can't wait to see what Virtualbox can do on this 64 bit OS.

so naturally i registered in the forum so i could say i appreciate it. eh, i'd rather lurk most times, but Fatdog64 is impressive enough to overcome my preference for shadows.

i'll let you know if anything unusually good or bad happens as i work it out. unlike the Distrowatch.com reviewer who loaded Puppy on his HDD because he could, i believe it's far better running this distro as recommended in RAM from CD or USB pendrive.

I am a new puppy fan and user.
I have several linux machines under my control, and I usually run KDE based Mepis. It is a great distro with a great community, but on my experimental machine, with the newest Mepis 11, I could never get the sound to work on the browser. So, I tried Mint, and now puppy.

So far I am liking it ! I have a Lucid Puppy 528 on a USB flash drive install and now a frugal hard drive (off of a SSD, very fast booting) of fatpuppy64.

I wanted the 64 bit as this machine has 8 Gig of RAM.

So, one question so far.
How can I get my data drive (sdb1) to mount automatically on boot?
On the Lucid 528 there is the utility (now I forgot the name mountboot or something).

Jim1911, is correct. I uploaded a pet package for BibleTime-2.8.1, It has a couple of bug fixes patched in. It requires the qt4, clucene, and sword packages installed. Please note the the qt4 package requires a reboot. Jim and Joe reported 'Install Works' wasn't downloading. That turned out to be a problem with the QT4 packages. I had some files in the qt4-dev package that should have been in the regular qt4 pet. I've re-uploaded the qt4 pets.

please, Kirk, that was unnecessary chastisement - i HAVE read the FAQs and docs and most everything else concerning Puppy but particularly Fatdog64, thanks. before and after i've d/l-ed and/or booted'em. i'm not like some of my brethren in bits who never/rarely RTFM, although in accordance with Einstein's "why should i remember my own phone number when i never call myself?" question, i still may forget or miss things.

right now i'm missing how to get VirtualBox and LibreOffice loaded. there's no FAQ for that.

VirtualBox seems to have disappeared from the downloads and LibreOffice won't load because it says sfs 3 is required and the package is sfs 4. VirtualBox gave me the same error when i did d/l it earlier, but that d/l was lost in a failure to save to CD glitch. i even tried one LIghthouse64 version but it too failed to install. i've also tried moving the d/l-ed files out of the spot folders as was suggested elsewhere but to no avail. plus more i don't remember...

all i really need is VirtualBox up on a 64 bit Fatdog and then i can load up Win 8 for testing, along with a few other Windows and Linux distros for testing or servers or some other reason.

what's appealing about Fatdog is more than it's so fast in RAM or got a minimal footprint, it's that the 64 bit kernel uses all my RAM and processors, plus it's got all the drivers i need for my hardware (see prior post). and to be a VirtualBox host i need a 64 bit OS able to utilize the Intel VT-d capabilities and all the RAM, plus other devices, etc., to share those resources with any 64 or 32 bit guests - i can't run a 64 bit guest on a 32 bit Puppy VirtualBox host.

the alternative is for me to pull back, breath pure oxygen, delve deeply into the depths of kernels and compiling and sources to roll my own distro using T2 or Arch or even Tiny Core, but i'd rather put my time into doing what i want to do a couple of layers higher up the coding complexity chain. Assembly was fun when i had to write a compiler or PDP8s were big computers, but nowadays it's like "why type on a KB when there's voice dictation and gesture control?" or "why try to build a better mouse (trap)?" when effective tools already exist. like Fatdog64.

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